Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 147 The beginning of drought
Taking advantage of the chaos to attack Huainan?Bai Tu is not a person who adds insult to injury.

Especially now, the water levels in the wells in Huainan have dropped somewhat!
It's June, Jiangdong and Huainan are not particularly hot this year, and it's supposed to be the time of plum rain, but this year's rainfall is obviously much less.

In the northeastern part of the Yangtze River, it has only been affected, but in Huainan... it is basically certain that this year's harvest will be greatly affected!

And despite the expectations of countless people, the worst situation has begun to happen - after mid-June, God seems to be particularly stingy, and it has not rained in Huainan for more than a month...

In the northeastern part of the Yangtze River, it is like twisting the handkerchief that has wiped the tears of the people in Huainan, and it only ticks occasionally.

Even Xuzhou and southern Yuzhou have been affected. Obviously, this year's harvest... is no longer a problem of production reduction. If this continues, Huainan is afraid that there will be no harvest, and the southern part of the Central Plains will also be affected, with a harvest of [-]% of the good year. That's good.

However, at this moment, a radiant word, accompanied by the drought, came alive in the hearts of the people in Jiangdong—Shenjing disease!

In Wu County and Danyang County, deep wells that were previously considered "useless" and "pleasant to the state herdsmen" became full of hope of life after some small water channels began to dry up.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs has also been paying attention to the drought. When the rainfall and land dryness dropped to critical values, the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately ordered the use of deep wells!
At the same time, troops stationed in various places have also received new tasks-drought relief and walking with the people.

There is a deep well, so at least you don’t have to worry about the people dying of thirst. There is enough for both humans and animals, and every time they fetch water, everyone will be grateful to think of Mr. Zhou Mu, and remember that they secretly talked about "deep wells" before. Everyone feels ashamed about the disease.

There were even civilian righteous people who were ashamed of swallowing carbon because of this incident, and were reported to Bai Tu by local officials as positive examples of "people's support", which made Bai Tu deeply feel that the people at this time were still very simple, although it was easy to He is dominated by emotions, but he is also different from some keyboard warriors in later generations who only talk and are irresponsible.

Of course, Bai Tu severely criticized this kind of self-mutilation and said that there will be a large number of recruitments in the future. Please use your efforts in the right place!
The problem now is agricultural use...

These deep wells alone were obviously unable to meet the amount of watering in the past, so the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately sent a large number of grassroots officials to preach to the people the importance of "reasonable watering."

It is impossible to keep the entire harvest. Instead of irrigating all the farmland, we should decisively give up part of it and keep at least half of the harvest.

This scale is the judgment of the "doctors" from the Ministry of Civil Affairs hired by Lu Su according to Bai Tu's instructions, that is, those experienced farmers who can even put forward some effective suggestions...

Of course, the water system conditions in different places are different, and the number of deep wells is different. Specific problems need to be analyzed in detail, and those who need to do the analysis are these grassroots officials hastily trained by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

Originally, there was some opposition to the Ministry of Civil Affairs' recruitment of officials from peasant households, but now it's time for them to prove themselves with practical actions.

Since the First World War in Wancheng, except for Sun Ce and Zhou Yu who were "trapped in the city", Jiangdong has stopped using all troops, but... there are still countless "soldiers" like officials from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, who are still "fighting" on the front line .

The disaster situation in various places is quickly transmitted to Jinling through signal towers, so that disaster relief forces can be distributed as quickly as possible.

There is no doubt that the winner of the “championship” of this disaster is Fuchun County of Wu County...

Fuchun is said to be a good place. It usually has abundant water systems and well-developed transportation. No matter what, Fuchun will not be the worst affected!

But they couldn't stand it. There was a Xu family in Fuchun, which directly destroyed many "deep wells" - according to what the Xu family preached among the people, this was a protest against the "hard drive deep well disease"!

Even the local officials in Fuchun County were not enthusiastic about digging deep wells. After the officials assisted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs left, they instead encouraged the people to cause trouble.

When the Ministry of Personnel wanted to remove these local officials, there was a farce of tens of thousands of people writing in blood - after Bai Tu found out, he simply let them go.

Some of the deep wells that were dug out with great difficulty were hired by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to dig out during the off-season. The pay was even higher than in other places!
Bai Tu admitted that it was not Xu who sabotaged Shenjing in the first place, but...a boring person who did not want to be named. He just let Xu take the blame so that he could settle accounts with him in the future.

Anyway, Bai Tu was right. With Xu Gong's character, he would not deny the matter as long as there were rumors. Instead, he would regard it as a "long-faced" matter.

However, what Bai Tu never expected was that Xu Gong not only did not deny it, but even got inspired. It seemed that he could show his ability by really blocking Bai Tu on this matter, and then he really intensified his obstruction. , destroying deep well excavation.

The "boring people who don't want to be named", when they destroyed the deep wells, they only destroyed some redundant wells and calculated the remaining deep wells. At most, they made it harder for everyone. However, when Xu Gong started... it was true that every A spectrum!
There are many villages in Fuchun County, which has become the only place in Jiangdong that cannot independently guarantee water sources for civilians and livestock. Now the people can only be concentrated in the county seat and other large towns, waiting for water to be transported around to maintain their livelihood... …

Public grievances!
Uncontrollable public dissatisfaction arose in Fuchun County, and the target was not Bai Tu, but the Xu family, the official who had failed to act before!

Xu Gong was in the local area before, using this as a "hype" method for his image of being unafraid of power, so no one knows who is responsible for the blame now... He has a reputation that can never be shaken off. The stench grew.

Even after the drought began, the Xu family seized some of the remaining deep wells—as large buffalo owners, they needed a lot of water for their livestock.

At some point, rumors emerged among the people affected by the disaster that "the Xu family took the wells to feed their cattle, causing the villagers to die of thirst"...

In the past, it was just because Xu Gong offended other aristocratic families, which made him appear to be a bit "outstanding" among the wealthy families. However, now... the Xu family should be the only wealthy family that is spurned by other villagers in his hometown.

As the representative of Wei Guangzheng, Bai Tu personally gave the order to rescue the people of Fuchun with all his strength. The soldiers, with water sources transported from the surroundings, worked overtime to dig deep wells for Fuchun to sharpen their guns before the battle.

The loss is the same as transporting grain, or even greater than transporting grain. It is equivalent to spending countless water resources to dig deep wells needed for life in Fuchun, but the damn cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens, and the farmland that deserves to die, It's basically hopeless...

At this moment, Wang Lang and Yu Fan personally led officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Household Affairs to Fuchun to thoroughly investigate Yinhu, Yintian, and other possible illegal activities of the Xu family!
In fact, today's major aristocratic families, even if they cooperate with Bai Tu, will definitely not be able to withstand such an investigation. The Lu family and the Yu family also have problems with hiding their homes and fields, and even selling private salt by the truckload.

Just checking other powerful families will definitely trigger local resentment and even civil riots. As a local prominent family, anyone can easily stir up local public sentiment.

But when he went down to the Fuchun Household and Punishment Department officials, he received a warm welcome from the people.

In addition, Xu's words and deeds are usually disorderly, and there is little evidence of guilt. The troops who assisted in digging the well have not yet withdrawn, and are stationed directly near the Xu clan's land...

(End of this chapter)